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England vs Australia Scorecard, 4th Test, Australia vs England 2025/26
Result · Dec 26 2025, Fri - 05:00 AM (IST)
AUSTRALIA152, 132
ENGLAND110, 178/6
England won by 4 wickets
CRR:5.51
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | England in Australia 2025/26 |
| Date: | Dec 26 2025, Fri - 05:00 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Australia |
| City: | Melbourne |
| Venue: | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
| Toss: | England won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Australia Playing XI: | Jake Weatherald, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith (c), Usman Khawaja, Alex Carey (wk), Cameron Green, Michael Neser, Mitchell Starc, Jhye Richardson, Scott Boland |
| England Playing XI: | Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Jacob Bethell, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Will Jacks, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue |
- Australia are on a three-match winning streak in men’s Tests against England after not winning any of their previous three encounters (D1 L2), while the last time they won more successive matches against England in the format was a four-game stretch from August 2015 to December 2017.
- Australia are unbeaten in their last three men’s Tests against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (W2 D1), including an innings win in their last meeting there (Boxing Day 2021); in fact, three of the last five meetings between these teams have been decided by a margin of more than an innings.
- Australia have won their last four straight Boxing Day Tests at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, twice by a margin of more than an innings, and haven’t lost a Boxing Day Test to a team other than India since 2010 when they lost by an innings and 157 runs to England.
- Australia are on a six-match winning streak in men’s Tests and have won 10 of their last 11 matches in the format; in fact, the last time they won more successive matches in the format was a seven-match stretch from December 2009 to July 2010.
- England have lost their last four straight men’s Tests which equals their longest losing run in the format since a five-match stretch from November 2013 to January 2014 which was in the form of a 0-5 Ashes loss in Australia; indeed, England have lost 10 of their last 13 men’s Tests away from home (W3).
- Across the last 10 years of men’s Tests at the Melbourne Cricket Ground no team has a better bowling economy than England (2.53), who have played two Tests there in that time; in fact, it’s also the only ground in Australia in which England have a bowling economy below three runs per over in that time.
- Alex Carey (Australia) has been involved in 2.72 fielding dismissals per innings in The Ashes across his career, the most of any player to feature in more than two men’s Ashes Tests; in fact, his 3.16 dismissals per innings in the 2025/26 Ashes are second only to Chris Read’s four per innings in 2006/07 in a single Ashes series.
- Harry Brook (England) has made a good connection on 70% of his 237 balls faced in the 2025/26 Ashes, the highest rate of any batter in the series; he is seven away from reaching 3,000 Test runs but hasn’t reached 50 runs in any of his last five innings which is his longest ever stretch without a 50+ score.
- Scott Boland (Australia) has taken 123 first class wickets at the Melbourne Cricket Ground since making his first class debut in November 2011, at least 49 more than any other player at the venue in that time (Peter Siddle, 74); in fact, since the beginning of 2021, he has taken 46 wickets at an average of 16.8 at the venue, including match figures of 6/96 against India in his last match there.
- Joe Root (England) has scored four Test centuries in 2025, the second-most of any batter behind only India’s Shubman Gill (5), but is yet to reach triple figures in a Test innings at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (5 innings); only at Adelaide Oval (8 innings) and The Rose Bowl (6 innings) has he batted more times and never logged a century.